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Who or what is your sidekick? My 10-year-old daughter, Kristin, and my two rescue cats, Mitzi and Wolfie What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Horse trainer or ballerina. I grew up with horses and often dreamed of being a jockey, but it’s a dangerous sport. I enjoy the camaraderie between animals and humans that’s involved with training. Also, I studied ballet for several years and made the mistake of quitting after my teacher retired. I truly wish I would have continued, although the discipline involved might have proved too hard to handle. What was the last local restaurant you patronized? Sullivan’s in Leawood Where do you drink? A glass of chardonnay at home after a gig. Or occasionally a glass of wine at Piropos Briarcliff after performing for five hours — long night. What’s your favorite charity? The Humane Society and the ASPCA Favorite place to spend a significant portion of your paycheck: Whole Foods. I am a longtime vegetarian, and it’s my favorite place to find the food I Iike and also organic items. Also, I have to admit that I love to spend money at my favorite clothing stores at Oak Park Mall. What local phenomenon do you think is overrated? The riverboat casinos Finish this sentence: “Kansas City screwed up when it …” Couldn’t formulate a plan for better mass transportation. Also, when the Chiefs traded Tony Gonzalez. He’s still playing great football. “Other than the Kauffman Center, Kansas City got it right when …” Downtown was revitalized. I had been away from Kansas City for several years and had not seen the Power & Light District. I couldn’t believe the difference in Kansas City’s downtown. It made me proud.
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takes up a lot of space in my iTunes: Diana Krall. She is my favorite artist. What movie do you watch at least once a year? Scrooge (the Alastair Sim 1951 version) What local tradition do you take part in every year? Visiting Union Station over the holidays. Celebrity you’d like to ride the Mamba with at Worlds of Fun: Ron Paul because I like what he has to say. He is against government meddling in private affairs, and he feels that we need to solve the problems in our own country rather than other nations. And he is anti-war. Person or thing you find really irritating at this moment: Donald Trump. It’s hard for me to take the Republican Party too seriously when Trump has become the self-appointed spokesman for them. Actually, I don’t think anyone takes him too seriously, thankfully. Last book you read: Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing, a biography of Ava Gardner by Lee Server Favorite day trip: Weston, Missouri. I love the shops and antiques. I also enjoy heading out to Louisburg, Kansas, with my husband and daughter. The wide-open prairie feel and the folksy atmosphere remind me of when I grew up with acres of land and horses. What is your most embarrassing dating moment? When my soon-to-be husband asked me out on a first date. I told him I was busy that night, and he said he was just kidding anyway.
“People might be surprised to know that I …” Am a huge classic-movie buff.
Describe a recent triumph: I spent four years performing at the Lodge of Four Seasons at the Lake of the Ozarks. During my time there, I rescued many feral cats by spaying/neutering, vaccinating and relocating them. It was the hardest but most rewarding thing I’ve ever done, except for being a mom.
What TV shows do you make sure you watch? Turner Classic Movies
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If your tastes run a little pricier, the Leopold Gallery in Brookside has a deal for you. For about $15,000, you can own one of six Limbaugh busts. The Leopold represents local sculptor E. Spencer Schubert, who created a bust of Limbaugh for the Hall of Famous Missourians at the state Capitol. Schubert made busts for the hall of Negro Leagues star Buck O’Neil and of Dred Scott, the anti-slavery pioneer who fought unsuccessfully for his own freedom. But Schubert found himself in a firestorm when Limbaugh’s induction to the hall was announced. In a press release, Schubert said he was “honored” to contribute the sculptures, regardless of the subjects’ political views. “As a sculptor, I decided long ago that the criteria for accepting commissions would be
whether or not they are artistically interesting,” Schubert said in the release. “I knew this would be an interesting project, due to the fact that there are strong opinions on either side about Rush. If it were left to sculptors to choose who was honored with portraits, the entire history of portraiture would look dramatically different.” Leopold owner Paul Dorrell says Schubert isn’t just trying to make a quick buck. “No one is trying to cash in on this. Spencer certainly isn’t,” Dorrell says. ”But any artist who endeavors to make a living and support their family through the creation of original art, whether they live in New York, Paris or Kansas City, has an enormous, lifelong, uphill battle ahead of them.” Dorrell says his gallery will not profit from the sale of Limbaugh busts, which will be poured as they’re ordered. But he will handle the transactions. Dorrell’s decision not to take a cut of the Limbaugh busts, however, differs from the sales of other Schubert busts, such as O’Neil and Scott. “They contributed to Missouri history significantly and in a positive way,” Dorrell says. “And there hasn’t been enough time passed to assess Rush Limbaugh’s life, no matter how you assess his controversial nature. And I’m just not convinced that he’s a historic figure.” So far, lovers of Rush-centric art are staying away. No Limbaugh bronzes have been ordered. — BEN PALOSAARI
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Today, comics are no longer impulse items on a drugstore rack. That box could help the woman pay her mortgage. And the same kids who built those collections are now penning the most sought-after properties in pop culture. (The movie adaptations of Thor and Captain America together grossed more than $817 million worldwide in 2011.) Many of this generation’s comicbook artists call Kansas City home. A few feet from the woman’s fidgeting teen is a rotating magazine rack filled with eye-popping covers: one with Wolverine’s bloody claws sits next to one of a woman in a skimpy black vest standing in flames. Marvel scribe Jason Aaron wrote the former. The continued on page 8
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second title is Lovestruck, a fantastical look at love in the modern age. Released in November, Lovestruck is the second collaboration between midtown artist Kevin Mellon and writer Dennis Hopeless. “My friends make fun of me because my plots are Mad Max meets Pretty in Pink,” Hopeless says later by phone. “But I think it’s easier to take a John Hughes character and throw it into a crazy world.” Hopeless is the latest Kansas Citian to quit his day job to write comic books full time. In October, the 30-year-old signed a contract with Marvel to author Legions of Monsters and X-Men: Season One, leaving his job as a graphic designer with BallyHoo Banners, an Overland Park sign shop. Planet Comic-Con, taking place Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25, is expected to bring more than 5,000 comic-book fans to the Overland Park International Trade Center. They will come to meet Hopeless, a midtown resident; Aaron, who lives in Prairie Village; and actor Billy Dee Williams, who is just visiting. This year, the artists’ alley at the convention will jump from 105 to 185 tables, almost
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Kevin Mellon a quarter of which will be occupied by local comic-book artists and writers whose works have graced televisions and movie screens and comic-book racks. “We’re still trying to figure out where to put all the tables,” says Binderup, who is helping organize the convention with promoter Christopher Jackson. “I guess we’ll be expanding into the atrium and hallway.”
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that Stasi wore like a cape in homage to Superman didn’t give him the power of flight, but it did inspire his early stick-figure cartoons. “I started drawing Superman stories,” says Stasi, who drives a 1992 Trans Am that he calls his “Batmobile.” I liked the idea that good wins in the end, and that I could help the helpless.” After graduating from high school in 1970, Stasi interviewed with DC and Marvel Comics. The twin titans of the comic universe wanted to know if he lived in New York City. When Stasi said no, the publishers wondered if he could take the train in from Brooklyn. Kansas City wasn’t on their radar. So Stasi followed the advice that he’d given to his students at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Shawnee Mission School District, places he taught for more than a decade. He went back to school and hit the convention circuit. Stasi recalls standing in line, portfolio in hand, hoping to catch an editor’s eye. He found inspiration in the stories of other writers, such as Bruce Jones, a Kansas City native who moved to the Big Apple in the early 1970s and wrote for Conan the Barbarian and The Incredible Hulk. Seven years after his dreams were crushed in New York City, Stasi heard from Dick Giordano, an editor with DC Comics, who offered him
a chance to work on Warlord, an established comic about a Vietnam vet transported to a land of swords and sorcery. DC sent a script to Stasi in Kansas City. He inked the pages and mailed them back. But the pages got lost. “My wife got a call from LaGuardia [Airport] a few days later,” Stasi says. “A teenager had found the package. He said, ‘I can’t believe you killed that character on the last page.’ ” The lost pages didn’t derail Stasi’s dreams. Over the next two decades, he drew Batman, Spider-Man and Tiny Toons. As Stasi found professional success, Kansas City edged toward the limelight. In 1987, DC Comics made KC the setting of Doom Patrol. The superhero team was headquartered in Union Station and was drawn by local penciler Steve Lightle, whom DC had discovered in a talent contest three years earlier. Stasi saw barriers to getting into the industry falling. He realized that he wanted to help local kids learn about the business of comics, and he started teaching storytelling and storyboarding at the Art Institute in 1990. A promising young artist named Blair Butler was one of his first students. The daughter of longtime Kansas City Star film critic Robert Butler, she now is a writer and comic-book
correspondent for Attack of the Show on the G4 cable channel. Butler has also penned Heart — a comic set in Overland Park about mixed martial arts — with local inker Mellon. “I’m not a gentleman in a cage, but Heart is sort of a metaphor for me writing comics,” says Butler, who bought She-Hulk comics from the quarter bin at Clint’s Comics when she was younger. “It’s about stepping up and doing that thing that seems terrifying because you’re really afraid of failing.” The desire of comic-book creators to get better at their craft is both the driving force for what is happening in Kansas City and the reason that it’s not a well-advertised fact. Most comic-book creators are working on a minimum of three projects at a time. That doesn’t count the cocktail napkins, the pitches on editors’ desks or the independent fundraising campaigns via sites such as Kickstarter. Mellon, 33, says the focus on creation, rather than promotion, is indicative of Kansas City. “This town makes you seek things out,” Mellon says. “There’s a lot of talent making their way, doing their thing and being perfectly happy and content to do that. Without yelling really loudly, it’s just about being really good.”
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ason Aaron, 39, wasn’t thinking about comics in 2000 when he moved from his home state of Alabama to Prairie Village to be closer to his sister. But in the last 12 years, Kansas City has become a hotbed for comic-book minds. “I had no idea there was this great group of comic creators in Kansas City,” Aaron says. “But we’re right up there now. You see representations of all the major companies and guys writing independent graphic novels.” Even with an unforgettable beard, Aaron isn’t often recognized in public. But he should be. He’s one of the five “Architects” of the Marvel universe, the five comic brains responsible for determining the future editorial calendar of the world’s biggest comic-book company (now owned by Disney). Another Architect, Matt Fraction (The Mighty Thor, The Invincible Iron Man), lived in Kansas City until a couple of years ago (he moved to Portland, Oregon). Aaron has worked on Ghost Rider; has released his own creator-owned comic, Scalped; and is
the lead writer on Wolverine. He has carved out a career that aspiring comic-book artists point to as one they want. “Comics is a very difficult business,” Aaron says. “It’s kind of like breaking out of prison. Once somebody figures out their way into the industry, that way is sealed up forever, and everybody else has to find their own way in.” Aaron’s big break was a 2001 Marvel talent search. His pitch won him a contract to pen an eight-page Wolverine comic. His next project wouldn’t come for five years, and he wouldn’t work for Marvel for six years. During that time, he spent many hours at Elite, shopping for comics and looking for an escape from his job as a warehouse manager for Priscilla’s. “There’s no union for comic-book guys,” Aaron says. “We’re spread all over the place. It’s hard to get that insight from other creators.” Aaron still gets his books at Elite on Wednesday nights, when Binderup orders pizza to celebrate the weekly release of comics. (Binderup has made cameos in several of Aaron’s comics as an injured or dying soldier.) Diamond, the distributor with a near monopoly on book distribution, delivers new issues to stores on Tuesdays, giving the staff a day to catalog and stock the latest stories. The names of Binderup’s most loyal customers are on tabs behind his cash register, arranged like CDs in a record store. Many receive issues that emerge from collaborations forged over Wednesday-night pizza. “It’s like Love Connection,” Binderup says. “I’m Chuck Woolery, and I tell everyone that gets work that the house gets 20 percent. I’m still waiting for my cut.” Jai Nitz, 36, is also an Elite regular. A graduate of the University of Kansas’ screenwriting program, Nitz teaches a class called Comics & Film at KU. But as a high school student in the 1990s, he had hoped to find someone who shared his love of comics. “I was the comic-book guy in my school,” Nitz says. “There was nobody a year older or younger. There was just me. Today, a savvy 10-year-old could find out as much about comicbook creation in an hour as I could in years.” Like so many in Kansas City, Nitz owes his career to Disney. After writing Batman, Nitz was given a chance to write a graphic novel, Tron: The
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Jason Aaron Betrayal, which he calls an “in-betweenquel.” (The story was meant to bridge the 1982 Tron film and the 2010 sequel.) Nitz’s contract with Disney allowed him to leave his job at a payroll company. Today, he’s a full-time writer at Dynamite, alongside Ande Parks, a native of Baldwin City, Kansas, who was an inker on Green Arrow and wrote Union Station, a graphic novel about the 1933 massacre of four federal agents and a prisoner at the Kansas City landmark. Nitz is also the de facto organizer of a monthly lunch meeting of local comic-book creators. The lunches are designed to get them away from their keyboards and in front of other people. “There are fewer professional comic-book writers than there are starters in the NBA,” Nitz says, “and five of us got together for lunch the other day.” Hopeless frequents the lunches. It was Nitz who helped him get his start with Marvel. At a 2010 Chicago comic-book convention, Nitz introduced Hopeless to his current editor for X-Men: Season One. “We look out for each other because that’s what you do,” Nitz says. “It’s really just this Midwestern sensibility. We’d never do that in L.A. There, we’d shoot the other guy in the face and then stab him in the back.” Like Nitz, Hopeless studied screenwriting in college, graduating with a degree in English and a minor in radio-television-film from Kansas State University. While Nitz fully intended to be a comic-book writer, Hopeless wanted to make movies. There weren’t many who shared Hopeless’ passion in Kansas City in 2004. Hopeless wrote scripts without much faith that they’d end up in production. So he sought solace in his first love and got a part-time job at Pulp Fiction Comics in Lee’s Summit, his hometown. The owner introduced him to Mellon, and the duo formed a creative partnership that is still going. “True collaboration is about bouncing ideas back and forth,” Mellon says. “It’s the act of discovering, that spark of figuring things out together and relying on each other for clues. It’s never just as simple as drawing and writing.” Their first published creation was Gearhead, a four-issue series about a wrench-wielding girl hellbent on finding her missing brother. Mellon taught Hopeless how to continued on page 10 pitch.com MMOANRTCHH X2X–X 2-28, 2012 pitch.com X, 200X
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letter, a skill he’d studied while attending the Kubert School in New Jersey, and they found a Russian colorist to help produce the pages. In 2006, they received an e-mail response from Arkana Publishing, which they initially dismissed as a polite rejection. “It was about a week before we realized we had a contract,” Hopeless says. Gearhead was released in 2007. It appeared that Hopeless and Mellon had arrived. But the tricky thing about starting out in the comicbook industry is that the contract always ends. After Gearhead was published, Hopeless wrote and pitched but received no offers. Now, he realizes that he wasn’t offering editors a complete story because he didn’t know the endings. Hopeless estimates that he wrote 900 pages before Lovestruck came out in 2011. Meanwhile, Mellon dived into the freelance world. His break came two years ago, working on Deadline with local author B. Clay Moore (Hawaiian Dick, Superman). Now, Mellon’s name is in the credits of the third season of FX’s animated spy spoof, Archer, for his work as a part-time storyboard artist. “I’m sitting there looking at the television, and it’s surreal,” Mellon says. “I can call my mom and tell her not to worry about me anymore.” Mellon believes that paying dues is what has earned him and Hopeless the respect of their peers. “I think we struggled our way into that group of comic creators,” Mellon says. “They just want to know that you’re for real and you’re serious — that you’re not a hobbyist.”
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the Green Giant — not the jolly one — and Blue Flame). Sullivan, Ed Bickford and Steve Daniels are the organizers of the free drawing sessions, which pull in anywhere from a dozen to two dozen artists over a five-hour period. Five years ago, this was a two-person gathering in a Lattéland at Briarcliff Village. The group then outgrew a Northland Borders and moved to the Crossroads space in 2010. “I work in a warehouse,” Daniels says. “In the summer, it’s hot. In the winter, it’s cold. But I leave that all behind on Saturdays. This is my freedom. Drawing is my freedom.” Each artist gets a crack at a jam, a drawing exercise that mashes up two different themes. On a recent Saturday, a white piece of paper is slowly being colored in with odd combinations of rock stars and pop-culture icons — a Rambo-Jimi Hendrix figure stands smiling next to a cartoonish amalgamation of Pee-wee Herman and Gene Simmons. “This is just a big drawing family,” says Shawn Geabhart, creative director for a local ad agency. The sense of community is what led Matt Fox and Adam Smith, both 29, to move their comicbook partnership from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Kansas City a week after Christmas. The two are working on a Web comic, The Long Road to Valhalla, when they’re not working as servers. “We could have a day job anywhere,” Smith says. “We couldn’t find a community like this, though.” Although Smith’s mother was born in Lee’s Summit, the comic-book team had only a passing familiarity with Kansas City before moving here. What they did know were the names: Aaron, Mellon and Nitz. “Comics are totally why we moved here,” Smith says. “The city is great, don’t get me wrong. But if there wasn’t such an awesome comic-book scene, it wouldn’t have been on my radar.” For the artists who are already here, the notion that somebody would turn to Kansas City for the source of their material is as satisfying as writing the source material itself. “The idea that we have enough gravity to draw in people from other parts of the country is a testament to how cool this scene is,” Nitz says. “You just want to find the others and hang out with them.” Off the page, Kansas City comic-book creators keep being drawn together. E-mail jonathan.bender@pitch.com
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For some artists, everyday social interactions have replaced the studio as the site of creation. For “Touch Sanitation,” Mierle Laderman Ukeles shook the hands of New York City sanitation-department employees to thank them for their work. In a talk titled, “Can Art Really Leave the Ivory Tower? Thoughts on Public Art and Social Participation,” Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art, covers Ukeles and other artists orchestrating social situations. He makes his points at the Nelson-Atkins FIND Museum of Art (4525 MANY MORE Oak, 816-751-1278), a building that’s full of paintings and But like LISTINGS sculpture. Ukeles’ handshakes, ONLINE AT Finkelpearl says, not PITCH.COM all of these art objects are supposed to be in a museum. “They were meant for a religious or ritual site, or people’s homes, which are sites of social interaction,” he explains. So social art isn’t exactly newfangled. The lecture begins at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers and $5 for students. See nelson-atkins.org. — THERESA BEMBNISTER
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POETRY IN THE PLAINS
The four prominent poets featured this year in the Midwest Poets Series have been both national and regional writers, which is characteristic of this series’ lineups. Opening the season last October was powerhouse Robert Bly, who was followed by prize-winning poet and UMKC professor Michelle Boisseau. Missouri’s first poet laureate, Walter Bargen, appeared in January. Not to be outdone, MU professor Aliki Barnstone comes to Kansas City tonight for the fourth and final event of the 2011–12 series. The poet, translator, critic, editor, visual artist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee did research in Greece in 2006 as a Fulbright Scholar, resulting in a group of poems in the voice of a Sephardic Jew and Holocaust survivor. She reads at 7 p.m. at Rockhurst University’s Mabee Theater, in Sedgwick Hall (1100 Rockhurst Road),
Let’s do the Time Warp again (Saturday).
followed by a book signing and reception. Admission is a mere $3 at the door, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. For more information, see rockhurst.edu/artsandletters. — DEBORAH HIRSCH
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Twice a year, a second-floor space in midtown is transformed into an underwater temple of Atlantis, complete with dolphins, whales, bubbles and sparkles. “Our goal is to provide a beautiful and safe space so you bring your questions and concerns to receive information so you can make better choices,” says Barbara Criswell, owner of Aquarius (3936 Broadway, 816-931-6303). She’s talking about the Oracles of Aquarius psychic fair, which this weekend includes tarot readers, spiritual consultants, energy healers and spiritual artists. Among the soul guiders are people such as Julie Marie, ready to tell you about your past lives, and Karen GlasgowFollett, an expert at contacting the deceased. There’s no admission charge, but services of
the spirits aren’t free — take cash. The fair runs today from 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, e-mail (via the Internet, not your mind) aquariusbooks@ aol.com or see aquariusbooks.com. — BERRY ANDERSON [HOME & GARDEN]
REFEATHER THAT NEST
If deciding between marble or granite countertops has ever led to a relationship problem, you’re in luck. The Greater Kansas City Home Show and Flower, Lawn and Garden Show are back at Bartle Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-942-8800) for their 64th year of helping stylish nesters reach (or recover) domestic harmony. The shows run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow (and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday), with home products and services, including decorating, design and building demonstrations, and remodeling and landscaping ideas. Architect Sarah Susanka speaks today on her Not So Big House book series, and among the prizes up for grabs is an $8,000 Electrolux appliance package. General admission costs $10 (children under 12 are free). For appearance times and other information, see kchba.org. — MICAH GUTWEILER
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When we were latchkey preteens, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was our J-A-M. We nabbed Mom’s bra, popped a dubbed VHS tape into the VCR, and did the “Time Warp” all over the den as if we were over at Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s place. We cut our hair like Columbia’s and didn’t give a toss if kids called us weird for thinking Tim Curry looked hot in lipstick. At 10 p.m., let your freak flag fly at the screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Screenland Crossroads (1656 Washington, 816-421-9700), accompanied by shadow-cast floor shows. Tickets cost $8, and prop bags are $3. (Management asks that you respect their “no rice, toast, toilet paper or water gun” policy.) If you’re a Rocky Horror virgin, ask your weird friend why you’d bring toast to a movie in the first place. See screenland.com. — MEGAN METZGER [CONTESTS]
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this month in a division round of the Jackson County Spelling Bee. And the elementary and middle school students — the county’s top 40 spellers — are set to conquer tougher words today at the Jackson County Championship Bee, the winner of which earns a spot at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Mary Olive Thompson, the Kansas City Public Library outreach manager who’s organizing the local event, says the children are invested. “They are up onstage spelling their hearts out in front of people they don’t know,” she says. “You can tell these kids have practiced for hours and hours.” The Kansas City Public Library partners with the Mid-Continent Public Library and the Local Investment Commission to host the bee at 9 a.m. at the Kansas City Library’s Plaza Branch (4801 Main, 816-701-3481). For more information, see kclibrary.org. Admission is free. — NANCY HULL RIGDON [SPORTS]
ROLLER BELLES
Fresh off a fourth-place finish in the Super Bowl of roller derby, the Kansas City Roller Warriors aren’t afraid to brag. “Not only are we the best roller-derby league in Kansas City — we are one of the top four in the world,” Maria Carter (known as Bubonic Peg) says of the league all-star team’s finish in the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships. The local league kicks off its eighth season with House Team Battle 1. Expect the Victory Vixens, who finished second in league play last year, to be out for revenge against the Dreadnought Dorothys, the reigning league champs. “We lost some veterans,” says Carter, who skates for the Dorothys. “We have a lot of fresh meat this year. And the Vixens, they have some veteran players back this year. We know they are gunning for us.” Games begin at 7 p.m. at Municipal Auditorium (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000). Tickets cost $16 at the door. See kcrollerwarriors.com for more information. — NANCY HULL RIGDON
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In February, thieves broke into the Alcott Arts Center (180 South 18th Street, in Kansas City, Kansas, 913-233-2787) to steal copper wiring, and they did an estimated $14,000 in damage to this nonprofit’s headquarters. The cost of repairs looms large, just as the Alcott’s 2012 season of community-arts programming begins April 13. Enter the heroes at Prospero’s Books (1800 West 39th Street, 816-531-9673), who are hosting a fundraiser to benefit the Alcott. Beginning at 5 p.m., attendees are treated to live jam-jazz and beatnik poetry, followed by the Flying Absinis (poetic acrobats), and readings from the collaborative collection Down, Down and Away by Josh Rizer and Jason Ryberg. At 6:30, all literary noodlers are invited to bring their own poetry as the traditional Sunday open-mic event, “The Pit,” commences. “KC’s arts community supports each other,” says Will Leathem, Prospero’s co-owner. “When a wonderful venue like the Alcott is vandalized, Prospero’s is happy to be a part of helping them 14 2 TtHhEe PpIiTtCcHh
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KEEP THE FLAME ALIVE
Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast is pretty much the “Fight for Your Right (to Party)” of 1736. The Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, which performs Feast’s overture tonight, isn’t exactly the Beastie Boys, but its 7 p.m. Baroque by Candlelight program offers some subtle rebellion of its own. See, Handel’s throwdown celebrates the conquest of Persepolis and is based on an ode to Cecilia, the patron saint of music — a fitting selection for the 40-yearold group’s annual fundraiser concert, the first since Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback sent the state’s arts commission packing last year. And even if there’s no hidden message in Telemann’s “Perpetuum Mobile” (translation: perpetual motion; music goes on!) and Purcell’s overture to Dido and Aeneas (tricky gods cause tragedy), they’re going to sound really, really good inside the Plymouth Congregational Church (925 Vermont, in Lawrence). There’s also a little Bach and the harpsichord of Rebecca Bell. It starts at 7 p.m.; see lawrencechamberorchestra.org or call 785-691-7824 or for tickets ($25; $10 for students). — SCOTT WILSON
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HAPPY-HOUR HIT LIST
Early spring weather like we’ve had means an early start to outdoor drinking. Let the patio crowds teem while you stay out of the sun a little while longer and enjoy some drink specials that might be new to you. The American (200 East 25th Street, 816-545-8001). From 4 to 6:30 p.m., the swanky Crown Center staple offers $3.50 glasses of wine and signature drinks ranging from $3.50 to $6.50. The Blue Line (529 Walnut, 816-472-7825). The River Market’s latest addition is hockeythemed and offers $2 Bud Light and Flying Monkey Amber drafts, and $2 wells from 4 to 7 p.m. The Uptown Arts Bar (3611 Broadway, 816-960-4611). The newest addition to the Broadway corridor has $2.50 domestic bottles; $3.50 micro and import bottles; $3.75
Drink cheaply (Monday) and/or liberally (Wednesday).
Jim Beam, Smirnoff and Cuervo Gold cocktails; and $4 glasses of cabernet and chardonnay, from 4 to 7 p.m. — BERRY ANDERSON
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CRAZY FOR YOO
One of the most controversial legal figures in a generation, Berkeley law professor John Yoo is known most widely for serving as deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and for co-authoring the 2002 legal memo authorizing the torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. He also had his hand on the 2001 memo allowing for the National Security Agency to monitor the communications of Americans on American soil — without warrants. Despite intense criticism, Yoo has remained steadfast in his opinions and is unafraid of confrontation. (Often met with protesters, he has traded insults along with his legal commentary.) Love him or hate him, his 7:30 p.m. appearance at the Dole Center for Politics (2350 Petefish Drive, in Lawrence, 785-864-4900) is an opportunity to share space with a man who inarguably has influenced modern American history. See doleinstitute.org for more information. — APRIL FLEMING [LITERARY EVENT]
THE OTHER BROTHER
Augusten Burroughs: “Which one of us do you think had the worse childhood?” John E. Robison: “I mean, what’s the choice? You got diddled, and I got beat up.” That exchange comes from a 2007 video in which best-selling memoirist Burroughs (Running With Scissors, Dry) interviews his brother, Robison, whose own account of growing up was about to hit the best-seller list. Robison, a ninth-grade dropout whose aptitude for electronics landed him a technician gig with Kiss in the 1970s, has struggled socially his entire life. At age 40, Robison was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and has since become a leading advocate in autism/Asperger’s circles. At 7 p.m. at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-4466), he promotes his newly released second memoir, Be Different: My Adventures With Asperger’s & My Advice for
John E. Robison (left) says, Be Different, at Unity Temple on the Plaza (Tuesday). Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers. The $14 admission buys a copy of the book, plus two tickets to his lecture. Reserve at rainydaybooks.com until 2 p.m. today, or call Rainy Day Books at 913-384-3126 for more information. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE
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Want a side of discussion with your craft beer? Raise a glass with the Kansas City chapter of Drinking Liberally, which welcomes political minds of all leanings. “The purpose is to have fun and socialize and to discuss politics, economics and current events,” group host Gary Brush says. “Some chapters have members who are Republicans and Independents who enjoy rousing discussions.” Brush doesn’t have to schedule speakers or moderate debates because the group follows the national model: Discussions are self-propelled. Consuming alcohol is optional, although Boulevard and New Belgium are popular among the group. “We don’t have leaders or any structure to speak of. We just show up and talk,” Brush says. “Generally, if we have a good crowd, we talk politics, but if there are only three or four people, we mostly just gossip.” Drinking Liberally commences at 7 p.m. every Wednesday and third Sunday. Join them tonight at Tanner’s (7425 Broadway, 816-822-7525). For more information, see livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/MO/ kansascity. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE Night + Day listings are offered as a free service to Pitch readers and are subject to space restrictions. Submissions should be addressed to Night + Day Editor Berry Anderson by e-mail (calendar@pitch.com), fax (816-756-0502) or mail (The Pitch, 1701 Main, Kansas City, MO 64108). Please include zip code with address. Continuing items must be resubmitted monthly. No submissions are taken by telephone. Items must be received two weeks prior to each issue date. Search our complete listings guide online.
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f it were up to me, Kansas City would celebrate Oscar Wilde every year, on the occasion of some U.K. national holiday. Given my bias, then, I had high hopes for the American Heartland Theatre’s new production of The Importance of Being Earnest. The works of the 19th-century poet, novelist and playwright have endured, though many may not be familiar with his writings. And Earnest isn’t to everyone’s taste, for some reason, perhaps due to its setting in Victorian England — it was BY first performed in 1895. But D E B O R A H the comedy is filled with comments on love and marriage, Jim Korinke (left) grills Rusty Sneary. HIRSCH friendship, social status, and Korinke embodies Lady Bracknell so conthe importance of appearances vincingly, I never thought of him as being in — relevant themes that never go out of style. Wilde was a clever humorist, and just about drag. John Rensenhouse, in the first of his three every other line of dialogue is some witty remark supporting roles, is Algernon’s regal, reserved that’s often a play on words — note the title — manservant, Lane. And he’s a scene-stealer in perhaps too subtle at times to generate laughter his other two supporting roles: the celibate and the night I saw the play. But the audience was in sexually repressed Chasuble and the very elderly the actors’ hands by the end of the show. country-estate butler Merriman (requiring a This was due, in some part, to physical gags couple of Houdini-like quick costume switches). not in the original script — additions that work The first of the play’s three acts takes place in and aren’t overdone. Paul Hough directs with Algernon’s London apartment, where the firethe precision that a farce like this requires, and place and wall paintings are set up shadow-box the physical comedy is nicely choreographed. style, adding additional dimension to interesting The actors’ accents sound beeffect. Jason Coale’s set design lievably British, and their repand Shane Rowse’s lighting The Importance artee is perfectly timed. Hough bring outdoor sunshine and of Being Earnest and the cast of seven bring the cheeriness to the garden setThrough April 15 comedy of manners to lively ting of John’s country estate at American Heartland 21st-century life. in Act 2. Theatre, 2450 Grand, 816-842-9999, ahtkc.com The plot is a twisted one of The period costumes (demistaken and assumed idensigned by Sarah Oliver) are a tity. The main character, redelight. The women’s dresses spectable young John Worthing (Rusty Sneary), are beautiful to behold, and the men’s outfits, resides in the country with his teenage ward, from their hats to the tips of their shoes, are Cecily Cardew (Emily Peterson). But when he colorful and appropriate to the time of day and goes to London, he becomes his fictional brother to the indoor or outdoor setting. Algernon’s day Ernest, an identity he has created in order to live suit in the garden scenes speaks to his carefree a double life. In London, he visits his idle friend personality, and Lady Bracknell’s dress in Act Algernon Moncrieff (Todd Carlton Lanker), 3 even sports a bustle. whose cousin Gwendolen (Natalie Liccardello) If there were any slow moments, they were is John’s love interest. But Gwendolen knows few, mere pauses from breakneck developments John only as Ernest. Her mother and Algernon’s and verbal quips. A scene between Peterson and aunt, Lady Bracknell (Jim Korinke — more on Liccardello, in a look at women’s friendships, is that later), can’t accept Ernest/John’s overtures very funny, and a fast-paced exchange between to Gwendolen because when he was a baby, Sneary and Lanker, when Algernon complicates he was discovered inside a valise at Victoria matters even more, is particularly dynamic. Station and raised by the man who found him. After I saw The Importance of Being Earnest, Meanwhile, Cecily, under the care of governess I was actually in pain from my continuous smile. Miss Prism (Cathy Wood), develops a fixation Who holds a permanently fixed grin for two on this London-dwelling Ernest. hours? I rarely, if ever, do, and I went home with And that about skims the surface of a play the soreness to prove it. preoccupied with surface. Besides, saying more about the plot would just ruin the fun. E-mail deborah.hirsch@pitch.com 16
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film Blood Sport THE HUNGER GAMES COULD HAVE BEEN MEATIER, BUT IT’S NOT JUST EMPTY CALORIES. he Hunger Games, based on the first of the hit young-adult novels by Suzanne Collins, posits a dystopian future where teenagers must fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. It’s an altogether more nihilistic proposition than the Anglophilic derring-do of Harry Potter or the sub-Harlequin torment of Twilight, but it’s BY also a fairly common trope BILGE (remember The Running Man to Death Race 2000?). The EBIRI main difference is the YA spin — even Kinji Fukasaku’s Japanese-teens-killing-each-other-for-ouramusement flick, Battle Royale, to which this will be compared, isn’t meant for kids. But this blockbuster aimed straight at teens also displays the patience of a real grown-up picture. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) plays Katniss Everdeen, the impoverished 16-year-old super-archer who ends up as a contender in the so-called Hunger Games after volunteering to take her younger sister’s place. Josh Hutcherson is Peeta Mellark, a baker’s son with a thing for Katniss. Together they travel from their gritty
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Uniforms + helmets ÷ Katniss = dystopia.
over the proceedings is that there can be only one winner. Of the 24 kids chosen for the games, 23 will have to die — and die horribly. The director isn’t an action auteur but rather Gary Ross, the man who gave us Seabiscuit and Pleasantville. That turns out to be a good thing. His screenplay and direction cut smartly through the running and jumping and stabbing to stay trained intently on the actors. He seems to understand that a trembling face can do more to convey suspense than countdowns and soaring music (though, just to be safe, he does throw
Bad Boy WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.
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e Need to Talk About Kevin, talented director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel, is a hard film to pan. This is because the movie seems exceedingly complex, and objections raised against it might seem like reactions against cinema that mean BY to challenge. And, boy, does M I C H A E L Ramsay want to challenge us. But calling Kevin a disapS I C I N S K I pointment doesn’t adequately convey the extent to which this movie has the power to irk. Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) is a travel writer who agrees to move to a stifling suburb and become a stay-athome mom upon the birth of her son, Kevin. Some of this is at the behest of Franklin (John C. Reilly), Eva’s far more conventional husband, who is happy to settle in, get out of the city and spend weekends mowing the lawn. Kevin has problems. First, he won’t stop crying. Then he goes silent. Then, after an abnormal period of complete silence, he begins speaking — in complete sentences. Later on, violent, unexplained events just seem to happen around the
boy, but only Eva seems to see them. She consults psychologists, but her son is shrewd enough to game them (and his dad). The film’s final third consists of the teenage Kevin (played by Ezra Miller, from Antonio Campos’ film Afterschool) proving that Eva has been right to worry. Shriver’s novel consists mostly of Eva’s recollections, her processing of parental guilt, and the constant movement of her memory as she tries to figure out why Kevin “went wrong” and why she could never love him the way a mother’s instinct demands. Kevin is, among
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other things, an examination of postpartum depression, the social pressure placed on professional women to make room in their lives for children, and the assumption (even in our post-Freudian age) that mothers are to blame when children turn out to be monsters. But Ramsay loses control of the material early on. For one thing, Eva’s guilt is made external, so that Swinton’s character spends much of the movie as a town pariah-cum-punching bag, with
in some countdowns and big music). The film takes its time, giving the cast room to breathe, so that character choices make sense. That’s not to say he skimps on the violence — the games start with a melee of electrifying brutality straight out of the worst dream you ever had. The movie intrigues most when it examines the way the contestants must play on viewer emotions in the run-up to the competition. When Peeta announces on TV that he’s been secretly in love with Katniss all along, she revolts backstage. “He made me look weak!” she screams. “He made you look desirable!” retorts her trainer. At moments like these, in the film’s observations about using sex appeal, vulnerability and charm to prevail in deadly combat, The Hunger Games is as much about the meat grinder of our own world as it is about imaginary contests in distant realities. Unfortunately, what starts as a breathtaking moral puzzle settles into good guys versus bad guys. As the kids from richer districts come together to form a gang, the film clearly demarcates who deserves to die and who doesn’t. And when the powers that be decide they need to kick Katniss and Peeta’s submerged romance up a notch, the couple is made to kiss passionately. Ross plays the moment to the cheap seats, manipulating us the way the characters have been. He doesn’t quite have the chops to make his adaptation about some of the things it wants to be about. ■ no clear reason why. Her performance clashes with Reilly’s aw-shucks demeanor and Miller’s Kubrickian-to-the-hilt demon-spawn theatrics, making it unclear what Ramsay is going for — horror, tragedy or farce. Likewise, Ramsay’s scrambled chronology — theoretically justifiable as an expression of Eva’s traumatized subjectivity — is leaden and overdetermined. It’s like watching someone else assemble a jigsaw puzzle. The shots fall quite beautifully into place, based on rhyming color schemes (blood red is, um, a big favorite), direction of movement or some particular object or image. But the exactingly formal correlations keep the heavy hand of the artist far too visible. By the time Kevin nears its conclusion, what we have are two leftover souls from a life that has essentially evaporated. It’s Eva’s story, largely because, as she comes to discover, she was always intended to be her son’s ideal viewer. Every act he committed was staged for her; once there is no more performance, Eva generates something else, a kind of “performance” of the mundane. The final shot — of Eva making Kevin’s bed (a rather direct visual quotation from Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman) — is the sort of simple, penetrating image that Ramsay’s film should have been full of. Like Kevin, every film has an ideal viewer. It’s just hard to know who the ideal viewer is for the oppressively schematic We Need to Talk About Kevin. ■
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ne of the questions people ask me most is, “Where did Kansas City gangsters eat back in the heyday of the mob?” Even Anthony Bourdain asked me, during his visit to town last December. If any of those spots still existed, I’d have driven the chef to one myself. The places popular with mobbed-up Kansas Citians in the 1940s and ’50s are long gone. Razed decades ago, the BY original Majestic Steakhouse, CHARLES in midtown, reportedly was popular with underworld bigF E R R U Z Z A wigs, but the Majestic Restaurant that’s now downtown has no connection to it. And heritage spots like the Savoy Grill, Dixon’s Chili and Town Topic were never wiseguy magnets. There is, however, a restaurant on the site where mobsters were once laid to rest. On April 5, 1950, Charles Binaggio — one of grew up next door to each other,” Cansler says. the “Five Iron Men” in the local mob — was “We went to the same high school and were gunned down in the 1st District Democratic roommates and fraternity brothers at William Club with another of the famous five, Charles Jewell.” Hendershot’s degree is in business, “Mad Dog” Gargotta. No one was ever charged Cansler’s in music theory and composition. After a few post-graduation detours, Cansler in the slayings. The bodies of Binaggio and Gargotta were is now a chef. He worked under Celina Tio at the on view at Peter Lapetina’s funeral home, at American but got sidetracked by a corporate job 536–538 Campbell. Those wishing to pay their as an IT project manager for Cerner. After seven respects numbered in the thousands — an even years there, Cansler says, he needed a more creative outlet and returned bigger turnout than that of to cooking. Hendershot hired the wake held for mob boss Pandolfi’s Deli him for Pandolfi’s. John Lazia 16 years earlier. Dinner Menu The dinner menu — ofThis year, you can mark Arancini ........................ $10 fered, so far, only on Friday the 62nd anniversary of the Beet carpaccio ...............$8 and Saturday nights — is, unnotorious gangland homiCarbonara .................... $16 surprisingly, heavy on Northcide with a really good meatSpaghetti and ern Italian dishes. There are a ball sandwich, served where meatballs, full order ... $12 couple of Pandolfi family recBraised short ribs ........ $23 Lapetina’s used to be. Roasted vegetable ipes (manicotti, the sugo) and The tile-floored storelasagna ...................... $15 several creations inspired by front on Campbell is now Cansler’s long stay in Milan. the sunny, attractive dining “I was there to study music,” room of Pandolfi’s Deli. Jake Hendershot (his mother is a Pandolfi) has he says, “but I did a lot more cooking.” It seems operated a casual Italian-style delicatessen in like kind of a gamble — the wildly popular the space for two years. The northern half of Garozzo’s is a few blocks away — but the two the building — the former funeral home — is venues are very different. If Garozzo’s is the being renovated for use as a dining room and vital, earthy Anna Magnani of local Italian resevent space. Ahead of that, Hendershot has taurants, Pandolfi’s Deli is — at night, anyway — more like the Monica Bellucci of Columbus introduced a semiformal dinner service. Hendershot’s partner in this culinary ven- Park: New World cool, a little prettier, a bit ture is childhood friend Grant Cansler. “We more aloof.
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The food is different, too. No one is going to mistake Mike Garozzo’s traditional Sicilian spaghetti and meatballs for Cansler’s robust, herb-heavy version. And don’t expect Cansler to whip up chicken spiedini (Garozzo’s signature dish) or toasted ravioli. Since dinner service started in December, Cansler has dropped a couple of dishes. (Some Italians, myself included, may love braised rabbit, but regulars at Pandolfi’s didn’t.) And Cansler has changed his recipe at least twice for roasted vegetable lasagna. I preferred the first version, though what’s on the menu now — a circular tower of roasted fall vegetables layered with ricotta and the delicate crepes used for the manicotti — is certainly prettier. Cansler says he’s introducing a spring menu in a couple of weeks, but he makes some changes almost weekly. A rustic delicacy he was offering as an amuse-bouche — arancini balls — proved so popular (hello, it’s fried) that it now has a permanent spot on the starter menu. The chilled risotto is wrapped around a center of fresh mozzarella, rolled in gluten-free flour and fried until the surface is golden and crispy. Yes, it’s the Sicilian equivalent of state-fair food, but I love it, and the dipping sauce — Cansler’s oreganoscented sugo — is fresh-tasting and delicious. A quartet of crostini — slices of Le Monde Bakery baguette — showcases four toppings. I
wanted to like the roasted-eggplant “caviar,” but the wan color and tacky texture were offputting. The olive tapenade on another piece more than made up for that disappointment, and the dollop of fluffy, house-made ricotta on the third was better still. (The last, cannellini bean with tomato, was fine but forgettable.) Among the salads, Cansler’s vegetarian “carpaccio” is a standout. His tissue-thin slices of deep-purple beets, topped with a jumble of spicy fresh arugula and tarted up with bits of gorgonzola and crunchy walnuts, is a smart and satisfying alternative to beef — one I think I might prefer to the traditional dish. The pasta dishes change frequently enough that I hesitate to declare a favorite. I will say that Cansler’s creative spin on carbonara doesn’t pay off like his carpaccio — it’s too avant-garde, even for me. It has the traditional pancetta and egg among the ingredients, but the sauce isn’t rich enough, and I firmly believe that a poached egg’s only appropriate place is on an English muffin. The shrimp on the carbonara I sampled was a pretty touch but gratuitous. If I got a vote in Cansler’s kitchen, I’d say keep the risotto, which is creamy and gorgeous, but don’t lose either of the two versions of braised short ribs that I tried recently. Both times, the slow-simmered meat was so flavorful and succulent that it rendered the side dish of blanket-thick polenta almost irrelevant. Oh, and please never stop making the Brussels sprouts, roasted until slightly smoky and delicately seasoned. They might be the best I’ve tasted in the city. Back to the short ribs, though. Get them with an order of focaccia (also from Le Monde Bakery, in the Northland), the better to soak up the pan jus. And make sure there’s bread enough to gather remaining sauce from the spaghetti, or the saffron beurre blanc from the pillowy seared scallops. Not too much bread, though — I ate so much that, alas, I could barely confront dessert. Gangsters eat dessert, though old-school types might want more than the airy refreshment of lemon-basil granita. The honey-vanilla ricotta filling in the crunchy cannoli beckoned me — until I remembered what happened to Eli Wallach in The Godfather: Part III. So I went with — what else — a square of tiramisu. At Pandolfi’s, the dish is made with sweet Marsala, and it’s good. Sipping a first-rate espresso adds a little fuel for talking and spending some more time in a remarkable setting. You won’t be laid to rest after dining at Pandolfi’s, but the experience is unquestionably restful and satisfying. Cansler and Hendershot have put together an exceptionally appealing, intimate and comfortable dining destination, and the food and the wine selections are terrific. The place could be a hit. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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Lord of the Thighs,” jokes Smith, complimenting a thigh braised in veal stock. The unforgiving nature of chicken is why chefs are often judged on how well they can execute the simplest dish. A bird that’s cooked perfectly comes out without enough salt. The right seasonings are lost on an extracrispy leg. “Do we have chicken liver in the fridge?” Hoffman asks. “No, they got it out of the chicken,” Hall answers. Hoffman carries the final plate back to the kitchen, and the four chefs push back from the table. “We might need some digestive enzymes,” Brassard says. “It’s not the quality of the food; it’s the volume.” The garage door lifts, and seven student chefs, six men and one woman, nervously fidget. They’re the ones who look like they might need digestive enzymes. “Did you get any undercooked chicken?” one of them asks. “No,” Thomas answers for the other chefs, who also shake their heads. “Awesome,” she says, visibly relieved. “The key is to work on organization,” Hall says. “The food can’t get there if you’re not organized.” “We’ve all been on a station going down in flames,” Smith adds, “but when somebody comes to help — and in a good kitchen, someone will help you — they can’t help you if your station isn’t organized.” The door rattles closed, and one of the students lets out an audible sigh of relief. Each returns to his or her station. There’s an hour and a half of cleaning to do. The three guest chefs give their regards to Brassard and make their way outside to the parking lot. They have a night of dinner service ahead of them, and tables of people waiting to taste and judge their own food. Livers in the fridge at pitch.com/fatcity
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f you count the records with his former band, Bowl of Fire, Andrew Bird has released nine studio albums, six live albums and six EPs, all in the span of 14 years. That feat doesn’t include appearances on dozens of other recordings, including discs by Charlie Louvin and My Morning Jacket; a recent art installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; or his cameo in The Muppets in 2011. The BY Chicago native is releasing APRIL his 10th studio album, Break It Yourself, March 6 and stops FLEMING at the Uptown this week. The Pitch spent a recent weekday morning chatting with Bird about his new songs, naval history, and how he’s a hater of stuffed animals. Sorta. The Pitch: Do you think your extensive musical training informs your pop-music path, or is it more like everything commingling in your mind all the time? Bird: I’d say more the latter. The way I started gave me a lot of flexibility. I learned by ear, so So it’s similar. It’s a little harder to harness the everything was kind of like folk music to me in state of mind that you need for the words. The the sense that it was all soaked up, as opposed to melody will come, barring major disastrous the written. I learned music like a language, so distraction. You said something a couple of years ago that when I hear other languages, I pick them up very quickly, like osmosis. My teachers wouldn’t about a line that you had in your head about the Lusitania. Did that finally make its way into like to hear this, but I was pretty self-taught. Was it your parents who exposed you early one of the new songs? Yes! Finally. It was a long time coming. on to music? It was my mother’s idea. She was committed That’s a good example. That line occurred enough that she played violin with me for the to me, and I thought, “That’s a great line, but first year — just so it wasn’t like me against her. what the hell do I do with it?” But like I said, it gathered other ideas like, while thinking of She was into it, and that helped a lot. Are there any similarities for you in the pro- the Lusitania, what else happened that threw the U.S. into international cess of writing prose or lyrics conflict? I think the sinking and in writing music? Or is the Andrew Bird, of the Maine is even a better process entirely different? with Eugene Mirman. example of a fabricated — No, there are some simiFriday, March 23, well, I can think of more relarities in the sense that a at the Uptown Theater. cent examples, but I felt like melody will get under your staying around the turn of the own skin, and your own idea century with it. The whole is just playing in your head. It’s kind of like the Top 40 radio station of your idea of laying mines along the shore turned own ideas — the ones that really get under your into using naval history as a metaphor for a skin are the hits. The same thing happens with doomed, codependent relationship. Who’s the woman singing in that song? words, like a certain phrase will occur to me, and That’s Annie Clark [St. Vincent]. I don’t know why, but everything I see around Are you two friends? me makes me think of it. I know I have to pay I’ve known Annie for years, and I was just more attention to it. Then I don’t know, the dust gathers, you know, more residue with time, and finishing the song up when we were on tour toyou have more than enough there for a song. gether, so I asked her to sing because the second 22
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verse felt like it was a different point of view. She gets the more upbeat point of view. It felt like the static electricity between two people. You’re known for tinkering with some of your songs, even while performing. From your perspective as a songwriter, is a song ever finished? No, I hope not. I’ve just resisted the idea that a record is some definitive kind of thing. … And I’m just not the kind of musician that’s content to do it like the record. I would be unhappy with that. I keep trying to change it up to find that moment of inception and make the song precarious again, to get that feeling of slight embarrassment, like you’re playing it for the first time. Do you think nervousness makes you better, or is it just more interesting to you that way? Or is it just that you like the spontaneity of it? I think it’s the spontaneity, and I think it makes the rest of the set more musical, I think, if it’s a little bit more precarious. I don’t like, at other shows, for it to feel scripted. Even between songs, if I say the same thing I did the night before, I feel like a chump. I can’t get around it, and there’s a certain amount that you can’t help. The muscle memory will want to take over from night to night. But I always feel let down when a show goes as planned. You’ve said that as you have gotten older, you have come to understand more what it is to create pitch.com
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space in your music. Does that mean that you have a greater appreciation for simplicity or that you have just become more patient? I definitely have noticed that I can appreciate certain bands that I would have found incredibly boring when I was younger. Like who? I just did not like pop music when I was younger. Of course, I liked the Beatles’ White Album, but otherwise I was kind of in my own universe. I just didn’t understand pop songs from the ’80s where the chorus would just beat you down over and over and over again. Making loops has forced me to be a little more cyclical, but it’s almost entirely linear. I don’t really go back and repeat anything. I missed the Band earlier on. I think I would have found that kinda dull when I was younger. Or bands like Kraftwerk — I would definitely not have been into that when I was younger, but I dig it now. This past December, you collaborated with Ian Schneller on a sound installation at the MCA in Chicago. Yeah, it’s this whole other facet of thinking about performing and creating. We just haven’t figured out a way to create any revenue out of it, but we’re hoping it’ll get picked up by museums as an installation, maybe as public art eventually. What’s cool for me is not just the visual aspect of it, which is 96 flowerlike speakers set up in a field, but the idea that I can get up in the morning and get my coffee and ride my bike to some open space and compose for three hours and be done. Instead of being all tweaked out all day and getting onstage where everyone’s focused on you. I found it amazingly gratifying, like no one’s looking at me, and it’s nice. “Danse Caribe” really sticks out on Break It Yourself. How long have you been working on that song? The lyrics I wrote in New Orleans while I was working on [Martin] Dosh’s record, and I wrote them really fast because he just needed something for me to sing. It’s based on a childhood experience. My mother tells me that at 15 months, I exiled all of my stuffed animals from my crib. I wanted nothing to do with these false comforts. So I drew that out a little further. And that’s not actually a steel drum; it’s something I do with my violin. Really? How do you get it to make that sound? I have a filter that’s a handmade pedal that makes the violin sound more metallic. You hear it a lot on the record. People think it’s either a guitar solo or a steel drum. It’s just pizzicato, but yeah, and sometimes the whistling with it will give the illusion of a steel drum. Which of your new songs are you most excited to perform on this tour? continued on page 24 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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ustin, Texas, lays claim to being the livemusic capital of the world. And if there Velghe knows his place on the music map. were a governor of such a province, few would dispute that the title belonged to singer- saw and heard when I was younger and said, ‘I songwriter Alejandro Escovedo. Last week, want to do that for the rest of my life.’ And the at South By Southwest, Escovedo’s likeness Replacements were one of them.” There are definitely some ’Mats moments graced the cover of the weekly Austin Chronicle, he shared a stage with SXSW keynote speaker on Don’t Let Me Stay, most markedly when Bruce Springsteen, and he handpicked the acts the horn section — Mike Walker (trombone), for high-profile (but tastefully mellow) parties Hermon Mehari (trumpet) and Sam Hughes (saxophone) — emerges. Walker and Hughes on Saturday and Sunday. Peter Buck and Mike Mills of R.E.M., Lenny played on an EP that Velghe released in 2010, Kaye, Jesse Malin, Chuck Prophet, the dB’s, and and he wanted even more brass on Don’t Let Me Tommy Stinson were among the performers Stay. “I wanted to get a sound like the Memphis Escovedo selected. Also on both bills: Kansas Horns stuff on Pleased to Meet Me or the brass City’s John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons. On on Exile on Main St. or the stuff Jim O’Rourke Sunday, at the unofficial closing-night party at arranged for Superchunk,” he says. (Velghe has the Continental Club, Escovedo got onstage and lately taken to referring to his brass section as joined Velghe and the Prodigal Sons for a cover the Waldo Horns, a localized reference to their Tennessee forebears.) of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” “With a lot of bands I play with, the songs “I’ve known Alejandro since around 1995, when [the late Midwestern Musical Co. founder] arrive at practice half-written,” Walker says. Jim Strahm introduced us at a Son Volt show,” “With John, the form and melody is already says Velghe, who is in his 40s but looks a decade there, but he’s very open to the horn players’ younger. “We became friends, and he’s been a suggestions for arranging our parts. The horn mentor of mine ever since. But I was still pretty ideas he brought in were pretty solid already, shocked that he asked me to play those shows. and we just cleaned a few things up. He’s got Alejandro at South By Southwest is like the fa- a real vision, and we just try to help realize it.” “I have always wanted to play on a record ther of the bride on the wedding day: You’re lucky if you get five minutes with him. I was like, like this one,” guitarist Mike Alexander says. “I I seriously get to play on a bill with Lenny Kaye?” had done similar things with the Roseline and In fact, Escovedo almost produced Velghe’s the Buffalo Saints but never anything with the new album, Don’t Let Me Stay, whose release is scope that the Prodigal Sons record has, what being celebrated Saturday at RecordBar. “Our with all the horns and strings. And I really like schedules didn’t work out, and I ended up pro- that John wants to get more than just a perforducing it myself, but he was sort of a satellite mance out of the guys in his band. He wants your producer for it,” Velghe says. personality in the shows and Don’t Let Me Stay turned on the record.” John Velghe and His out all right anyway. Nearly Don’t Let Me Stay comes Prodigal Sons a dozen musicians, many of across as a very complete, polSaturday, March 24, them local, appear on the alished product. It took about at RecordBar bum’s 12 songs, which reveal two months to record from Velghe’s fondness for what he beginning to end, but it’s far calls the “American Masters”: from overproduced or selfIggy Pop, Paul Westerberg, Jeff Tweedy, Alex serious. “Bloodline,” an upbeat, alt-rock jangler, Chilton, Springsteen and Escovedo. Velghe was written in about five minutes. “I was laying is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable music down guitar parts for another song, and I started fan, and he makes a full stew from the work of playing the riff that became ‘Bloodline,’ so I set his progenitors. The breezy Americana tunes up a new track, played that part and sang dummy (like the excellent opener, “Time Bomb”) are lyrics into the mic. I wrote 80 percent of the song embellished with melodic hooks; the hotter, in the process of just recording the idea,” Velghe more electric tracks boast lively brass sections. says, then draws on a musical hero to decorate “I’ve always said my heart is positioned mid- his point. “You know that thing Westerberg said way between Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis, about how the best songs are written in a few Minnesota, and that’s kind of where I write minutes when you’re bored and have nothing from,” Velghe says. “There’s a lot of Austin song- else to do? It was sort of like that.” writers like Alejandro and Doug Sahm and Jon — DAVID HUDNALL Dee Graham that have been really influential to me. But I was always a huge Replacements fan. E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com There are a handful of people and bands that I or call 816-218-6774 2
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Mac Lethal with Astronautilus and Busdriver Hot off his 15 minutes of Web fame — as of press time, 22 million YouTube views of “Nerdy white kid KILLS ‘Look at Me Now’ ” — KC’s own Mac Lethal stops in at the Riot Room to sate his fervent fanbase with an evening of emo raps. Love him or hate him, it’s going to be fascinating to follow his post-meme career. Friday, March 23, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
The New Riddim with Power and Light Reggae locals the New Riddim are set to release their debut album, Kidnapped, later this spring and are presumably previewing some of those fresh Rasta jams at this show. The evening also occasions the live debut of Power and Light, an electronic collaboration between producer Nathan Readey and Ghosty’s Andrew Connor. Friday, March 23, at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634)
This Must Be the Band Sonic Spectrum’s Talking Heads tribute took place less than two months ago. Plus, I’m iffy
on recommending cover bands in general. But I’ve happened upon this Chicago-based crew of David Byrne disciples a couple of times over the past half-decade, and they’re always tight and convincing. Also, the lead singer sometimes wears a Stop Making Sense-style big suit, which is one of the best things that has ever happened in rock music. Tuesday, March 27, at the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)
Soweto Gospel Choir Best known in America for being featured on “Down to Earth,” the Oscar-nominated Peter Gabriel song from WALL-E, this 26-member South African ensemble is a sort of Ladysmith Black Mambazo for the new millennium. Saturday, March 24, at Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College (12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, 913-469-4445)
Tech N9ne The Strange-ification of the rap underground continues apace as Tech N9ne and his label cronies Krizz Kaliko, Mayday, Prozak and Stevie Stone descend on the Midland. The evening kicks off Strange Music’s Hostile Takeover
Tour, a remarkable run of 90 shows in 99 days. Also on the bill is Machine Gun Kelly, a rambunctious Cleveland rapper recently crowned by MTV as the Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2011. Saturday, March 24, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)
Uncle Kracker with Sonia Leigh and Ty Stone Like his buddy Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker has mostly jettisoned rap-rock. The big money is in country-pop crossovers now, and Kracker has accordingly taken to rolling around in the hay and singing about small towns and downhome parties. Sunday, March 25, at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)
The Kinetiks Owing to the relocation of some of its members, Lawrence dance-rock darlings the Kinetiks are calling it quits. Wish them well at this farewell show at the Jackpot. Saturday, March 24, at Jackpot Music Hall (943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Jim Gaffigan: 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Overland Park Civic Band spring concert: 7:30 p.m. Polsky Theatre, at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-4445.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Andrew Bird, Eugene Mirman: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Terri Clark: 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Mac Lethal, Astronautalis, Busdriver: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The New Riddim, Power and Light: The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634.
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Geri Allen Trio, Tierney Sutton Quartet: Gem Theater, 1615 E. 18th St., 816-842-1414. Terri Clark: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Kinetiks: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Lisa Lampanelli: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Soweto Gospel Choir: Yardley Hall, at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Tech N9ne, Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Mayday, Prozak, Stevie Stone: 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.
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MONDAY, MARCH 26 The Growlers, TRMRS, Dr. Octor: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Protest the Hero, Periphery, Jeff Loomis Band, the Safety Fire: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Woodsman, Dustin Wong, Expo ’70: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Experience Hendrix Tribute tour: 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Nile, Hour of Penance, Marasmus, Gornography: 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
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UPCOMING The All-American Rejects: Wed., April 4. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Bassnectar, VibeSquaD: Thu., April 12, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Beats Antique: Fri., April 6. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Borgore: Sun., April 8. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Bowling for Soup, Patent Pending, Fresh Man: Wed., April 18. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Buckethead, That 1 Guy, Wolff & Tuba: Fri., April 20. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band: Sat., April 21. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Cake: Fri., April 20. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Glen Campbell: Thu., April 26. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Adam Carolla: Fri., March 30, 8 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Childish Gambino, Danny Brown: Tue., April 3. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Cults: Sat., April 14. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. David Hasselhoff on Acid, Cherokee Rock Rifle, Waiting for Signal, Humans, Versus the Collective, Opossum Trot: Sat., April 14, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Dayglow: World’s largest paint party, Sat., March 31. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. DrFameus: Tue., April 17, 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Electric Six, Aficionado, Andy D: Mon., April 2. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Leo Kottke: Fri., April 6. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Lady Antebellum: Fri., April 6. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Leftover Salmon: Thu., April 12. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Los Lonely Boys: Sun., MANY MORE April 29. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. The Naked and Famous: Tue., April 17. The Midland, ONLINE AT 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. PITCH.COM Plush: Thu., April 5, 7 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Portugal. The Man, the Lonely Forest: Mon., April 30, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Quixotic Fusion presents the Human Experience: Sat., April 14, 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Real Estate, the Twerps: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Sabaton, Ancient Creation: Thu., April 19. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. School of Seven Bells, Exitmusic, Clock People: Sun., April 15, 8 p.m., $8, $10. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Snow Patrol: Tue., April 24, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Split Lip Rayfield, Bright Light Social Hour, Red Eye Gravy: Sat., April 7, 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Stoned Coe Picnic: David Allan Coe, Levee Town, Mary Bridget Davies: Fri., April 20. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Daniel Tosh: Sun., April 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Municipal Auditorium/Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., 816-513-5000. Treasure Fingers: Fri., April 13. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. White Rabbits: Tue., April 3, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Woods, MMOSS: Wed., April 25, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Yonder Mountain String Band: Thu., March 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Young the Giant, Grouplove: Fri., March 30. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.
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nightlife T H U R S DAY 2 2 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Aluna. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Prima Donna, Don’t Stop Please, the Fall Down Drunks, Interstate Astronauts, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Daymoths, Moxx Nixx, 10 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. John Paul’s Flying Circus. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Cadillac Flambe; Grand Marquis. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Joanne Shaw Taylor, the Super Reverbs, R.J. Mischo, Jeremy Johnson, 6:30 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Delta Dogs Blues Jam.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. An Americana Tribute to the Beatles. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Sons of Fathers, in the Retro Lounge, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Halfway to Winfield Stage 7 Reunion, 6 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Josh Garrett Band.
DJ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Goomba Rave featuring Tyga Style, with Team Bear Club.
ACOUSTIC The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Acoustic with Drew Freeland. Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Sidecar Acoustic Nights with Mike Alexander, Dave “Chilidog” Crawford.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Karita Carter, Gerald Spaits, Charles Perkins Quartet, 7 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Floyd the Barber. Nica’s 320: 320 Southwest Blvd., 816-471-2900. Stephanie Moore with Joe Cartwright Trio.
WORLD The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Salsa night.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cherry Pop’s Burlesque Beauties, 6 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Tammy Pescatelli, 7:30 p.m. Michael’s Lakewood Pub: N. 291 Hwy. and Lakewood Blvd., Lee’s Summit, 816-350-7300. DJ Pure, beer pong, pitcher specials, 9 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Thirsty Ernie’s: 1276 W. Foxwood Dr., Raymore, 816322-2779. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 9 p.m.
Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam hosted by RocknRick’s Boogie Leggin’ Blues Band, 7 p.m. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Open Jam with JD Summers featuring Jeremy Butcher and the Bail Jumpers. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.
METAL/PUNK Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913384-5646. Spellcaster, Meatshank, Stonehaven, Vanlade.
VARIET Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Battle of the Bands with New Jazz Order vs. the Boulevard Big Band, 7 p.m. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Club Wars.
F R I DAY 2 3 ROCK/POP/INDIE Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. The ReHabaneros. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Me Like Bees, Another Planet. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The New Amsterdams, Old Canes. La Cueva “The Cave” under Cantina del Ray: 7100 Wornall, 816-361-3333. Serenity Fisher, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Doo-Dads, 5 p.m.; Wildlife City, Rusty Scott & the Enormous Radio, Hidden Pictures, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. CVLTS, Huerco S., 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Van McLain of Shooting Star.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Hector Anchondo, Clay Hughes, the Wind-Up Birds. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Mary Bridget Davies. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Fuzz Nasty, 10 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Sister Sparrow and MANY MORE the Dirty Birds, in the Retro Room, 10 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. Michael’s Lakewood Pub: ONLINE AT N. 291 Hwy. and Lakewood PITCH.COM Blvd., Lee’s Summit, 816350-7300. Platinum Express. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. JLove Band, 9 p.m.
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ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band. The Kickstand: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Nickel Plate Road Band. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Eddie Delahunt, 6 p.m.; Brian Ruskin Quartet, 10 p.m.
DJ The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Gruv: Fourth Fridays with Mike Dileo, Trevor Shaw. Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Turntable FM Night, bring your laptop and be the DJ. Thirsty Ernie’s: 1276 W. Foxwood Dr., Raymore, 816322-2779. DJ B. More and dancing. The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. DJ Ashton Martin.
ACOUSTIC Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. Dan Brockert. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. EXTRAordinary, Folkicide, 6 p.m.
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The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Indigo Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Book of Gia, 8:30 p.m. Nica’s 320: 320 Southwest Blvd., 816-471-2900. Mistura Fina. Ophelia’s: 201 N. Main, Independence, 816-461-4525. Millie Edwards and friends. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. AnnaLee and the Lucky So and Sos.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m.
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DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Karaoke, DJ, drink specials. Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ladies’ Night, Low Dough lady specials, 10 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m., free; Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m. Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.
FOLK The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Smile High Club, the Bonas Brothers.
VARIET Y Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mercury Mad and Apocalypse Theatre Revolution Circus tour, 9 p.m. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Summer Camp: On the Road tour.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Kerry Strayer with Kathleen Holman Quintet, 8:30 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Shades of Jade, 7 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Tim Whitmer & KC Express, 4:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Hermon Mehari and the Kansas City High School All-Star Jazz Ensemble present the music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, 6 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Charity Bingo, 5 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Tammy Pescatelli, 7 & 9:45 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke with KJ David, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m.
MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 1-4 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842. Anything But Clothes Party. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913-541-9255. Karaoke, 9 p.m.
METAL/PUNK The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Metal Wars, 9 p.m.
S U N DAY 2 5 ROCK/POP/INDIE RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series featuring the Cars with the Sexy Accident, Lazy, Deco Auto, 7 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. The Leotards, Zach Campbell, MOAS Benefit, 6 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Clementines.
DJ Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Sunday Funday with DJ G Train, 10 p.m.
JAZZ The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Mark Lowrey Jazz Trio open jam session, 5 p.m. Nica’s 320: 320 Southwest Blvd., 816-471-2900. Boulevard Big Band, 6 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.
S AT U R DAY 2 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Brutally Frank, the Rumblejetts, Them Damned Young Livers, the Itch. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Hidden Pictures, the Sluts, Double Plus. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Dead Ven, Dead Ringers, and more, 9 p.m. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Apple for Archers. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Alice Sweet Alice, Knot Afrayed, Eleven After 11, Jolly Roger. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. The Mooreheads. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Bad Disposition. The Kickstand: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Big Fat Delicious. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Bad Ideas, the Cave Girls, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. California Voodoo, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Chris Ruest Band; Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m. The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Phase II, Happy hour show; Project H, Miles Bonny. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Dr. Wizard. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Janet Jameson, 9 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Rick Gibson’s Blues for Brains. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Albert Castiglia.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Run Little Rabbit, Cletus Got Shot, Tinhorn Molly Cletus Got Shot. Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785856-2739. Megan Leigh. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Voice of Reason. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Sara Swenson, David Burchfield. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons, Diverse, 9 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Interstate Astronauts, Don’t Stop Please, Handmade Moments, 7 p.m.
DJ Balanca’s: 1809 Grand, 816-474-6369. KC Got Flava 3. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Bump ‘’n’ Hustle. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. DJ Eddie Edge.
HIP-HOP The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Club Wars Ultimate Hip-Hop Artist, 7 p.m. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Dolewite.
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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Cover Me Bad Open Jam Night. Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Jazz Jam with Nick Rowland and Sansabelt.
VARIET Y The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Taproom Poetry Series with Judith Roitman and Mary Stone Dockery.
M O N DAY 2 6 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.
DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Liquid Lounge DJs.
ACOUSTIC Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Tony Alvarez.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.; Karaoke with Kelly Bleachmaxx, 10:30 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main floor, 10 p.m., free. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5.
T U E S DAY 2 7 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. La Dispute, Balance & Composure, All Get Out, Sainthood Reps. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Drew6. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Angels, Big Iron, the Quivers, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation.
DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m.
ACOUSTIC RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rock Paper Scissors, 6 p.m. Thirsty Ernie’s: 1276 W. Foxwood Dr., Raymore, 816322-2779. The Outtakes, 7 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.
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MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration at 9:30 p.m., tournament at 10 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-221-3466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 7:30 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.
W E D N E S DAY 2 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Ravello, Generals, Harney Silt Loam. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Paperplanes. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Church Shoes, Up the Academy, 10 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Lonnie Ray Blues Band, 9 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Piano time with T.J. Erhardt, 7 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Louisiana Street Band, the Blue Tick Hounds, Grenadina, 9 p.m.
DJ Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight.
JAZZ Sullivan’s Steakhouse & Saloon: 4501 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-345-0800. Candace Evans Duo, 6 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. The Girlie Show with Daisy Bucket, Loretta Martin, Tajma Stetson, Christa Collins, 8 p.m., $5. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Sandman the Hypnotist, 7:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill: 3601 Broadway, 816214-8732. Karaoke with DJ Chad, 9 p.m. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Pop Culture Trivia. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Colby & Mole.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m. Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816-833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30 p.m.
VARIET Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Indie Hit Makers, 6 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Amy Farrand’s Weirdo Wednesday Social Club, 7 p.m., no cover.
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savage love In or Out Dear Dan: I was advised by my therapist to read your column. I’m a 21-year-old male and a senior at an Ivy League school. Despite my academic success, I’ve battled a lot of stuff the past few years: anxiety, depression, substance abuse and porn addiction. It’s quite a load of shit to try to wade through, but I honestly feel that I’m getting better. About sex: Before I even knew what I was doing, my fantasies involved being subjected to the erotic whims of a powerful female. I’ve tried to hide my interest in “submission” from everyone. Only recently BY have I begun to address this directly. I feel it is an issue of DAN sexual orientation that requires S AVA G E something like a “coming out” process. But while there are resources for gay people who are coming out, I have no road map. I’ve told a few friends but don’t think it’s necessary to reveal all this to my family. I cannot have a fulfilling sexual experience unless my desire to have a tilted power dynamic is understood and indulged, and I don’t think romantic love is possible for me without this part of me being accepted and appreciated. I would like to seek out sexual partners who would be compatible. But when do I bring it up? I have this dread of that moment on a date, perhaps a first kiss, when things are becoming unambiguously physical. WTF do I say? Should I try to get involved in a BDSM “scene”? Online personals? Date “normal” people? I don’t want to try to have sex again without it being known or understood. It feels like pretending, and it sucks. Seeks Understanding Baba
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Dear SUB: If it’s something that gay, straight and bisexual people can all do — like erotic power exchange — then I consider it a sexual activity, not a sexual orientation. Which is not to say that submission and/or BDSM can’t be hugely important to an individual (as much about self-conception as sexual expression). But you don’t have to come out to friends and family about the stuff that turns you on to accept yourself, get out and date, and find a nice girl who wants to subject you to her erotic whims. I’m not saying you can’t or shouldn’t tell people other than the women you date that you’re submissive. You can be as open as you wanna be — say, with friends you feel comfortable telling everything — but the only people who need to know about your desires are your sex partners. So how do you find a partner? Yes, get involved in the BDSM scene and take out a kinky personal ad, and maybe you’ll meet a nice, dominant girl who wants a sexually submissive — and Ivy League–educated — boyfriend. At the same time, date girls you meet during the normal course of your daily life, like any other single guy. After she gets to know you, but before she’s too invested and/or smitten, discuss your kinks with pitch.com
her. This is not a tearful confession. Your kinks are selling points; they’re something that makes you a more interesting sex partner. If you open up to a vanilla girl after a few weeks — and some good vanilla sex — and she runs screaming, she wasn’t the right girl for you. (And if she blabs to her friends about you, you may get a call from a friend of your ex who is the right girl for you.) Don’t marry the first dominant woman with whom you play, or bail on the first strictly vanilla girl with whom you hit it off. A dominant woman you don’t enjoy spending time with outside the bedroom isn’t someone you can realistically spend the rest of your life with; a vanilla girl who really likes you may get there — she may get off on being in charge — if you’re patient and attentive to her sexual interests. If you do come out to friends and family about being kinky, here’s a great short video on the subject: tinyurl.com/comingoutkinky. Dear Dan: I am a 21-year-old gay male. For the past six months, I have been having an affair with a man in his mid-40s. After our first hookup, he told me that he was married and had three children. I was shocked. However, we continued to meet up for sex. I have come to the conclusion that I am fine with this man keeping me a secret. I have fallen for him, and he has fallen for me, but I have no desire to break up his family. His wife was his high-school sweetheart, and he says she is his best friend. He also tells me that if I were to quit our sexcapades, which happen to be the best sex I have ever had, he would find another man, or other men, because he is attracted to men. We hook up every week in discreet locations where he would never get caught. I don’t plan on telling anyone. I am torn because we both acknowledge that, if the situation were different, we would make excellent life partners. I am deeply in love with this guy and want more out of our relationship.
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